Lawsuit Sparks Absentee Ballot Investigation
Alyssa Pointer | Reuters Follow CNBC’s live blog coverage of Monday’s campaigns ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Georgia’s secretary of state launched an investigation Monday into the failure of the county Board of Elections and Registration to mail more than 1,000 absentee ballots to voters after two civil rights groups filed a lawsuit over the situation. Within hours of the investigation being announced, an attorney for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit told NBC News that Cobb County had agreed to extend the absentee voting deadline to Nov....